I Am So Tired Of The Bleeding In Iraq [View All]

And I am so discouraged about the prospect of it ending. Even if democrats get the Senate and the House back, there'll be no withdrawal. They have the power of the purse, but they won't refuse the administration's request for funding.

I am so tired of the stories that come out of Iraq. I am tired of seeing the numbers rising, month after month after month, at the Baghdad Morgue. I'm tired of seeing stories like the one about the 2 helicoptor pilots, whose bodies were found today. I'm tired of Vermont soldiers dying. Yes, I know that sounds parochial, but we're such a small state, and we've had 25 Vermonters die in Iraq. It's hard not to know a family that hasn't lost someone. In my little town alone, we've lost 3.

I know Lebanon is awful, and it's new, and it makes the mideast a more volatile place by a significant degree, but Iraq makes me angrier- and wearier. It's so under my skin; because no matter what happens, it's going to be awful. There was never a good outcome there, but we may well have produced one of the worst possible future scenarios.

And when I think about it, really think about it, I feel so caged and helpless. We couldn't stop it- whoever we is, and we certainly can't do anything about its trajectory, and its such so hopelesslyfucked up.

I don't know if what I wrote makes any sense, but I just had to rant about the frustration I feel.